Faith is a reporter in the Fall 2024 Sojourners Journalism Cohort. Learn more about the program.
Faith Branch is an East Coast-based freelance writer. She began writing in college for her school’s food publication, where she combined her love for eating and pop culture. Having spent several years doing nonprofit and advocacy work, she is passionate about helping those most in need.
Hailing from upstate New York, her lifelong dream is to live in a Wegmans grocery store. In the meantime, she’s focusing on her goal of becoming a full-time writer. Faith likes to write about culture, politics, gender-based inequity, and anything else that allows her to utilize her nosiness skills.
Faith has also worked as a ghostwriter in her spare time. Most recently, she was a fact checker at The Nation where she also wrote the occasional article. When she’s not writing, you can find her camping out at the local library, reading a book in the park, or baking desserts with her favorite food: chocolate.
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Meet the Women Leading the Christian Right
Sen. Jim Risch (R-Idaho), left, Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.), second from left, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), second from right, and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), right, attend a press conference on a resolution condemning restricting weapons for Israel by the Biden Administration, at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on May 9, 2024. Rod Lamkey / CNP/Sipa USA via Reuters.
While policies and culture associated with the Christian Right often value men’s leadership and patriarchal structures, it’s a misconception that men entirely run the movement. From the beginning, women have been influential leaders in right-wing Christian movements.
For Disabled Voters, Church Polling Locations Present Challenges
A person walks, as people vote in the 2024 presidential election, on Election Day, at Church of Heavenly Rest in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City, Nov. 5, 2024. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly
During the 2024 August primary election, a Detroit man called the Election Protection Hotline to report an accessibility issue at a polling location. The man, who had a mobility disability, went to vote at a church in the city where he was met with a flight of stairs but no ramp. He was forced to get out of his wheelchair and climb the stairs on his hands and knees before he could cast his vote.
Trump’s Black Allies Want to Win Over Black Christians. Will it Work?
Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump poses for a photograph with an audience member wearing a hat reading “Jesus is my Savior, Trump is my President” after a campaign community roundtable at 180 Church in Detroit, June 15, 2024. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
Armed with the message that Americans have become too morally liberal and strayed too far from God’s light, a few Black conservative Christians, like Pastor Lorenzo Sewell, are trying to upend the historic support of Black Protestants for the Democratic party.